Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 138
Now," says the giant, "there is a fir tree beside that loch down there, and there is a magpie's nest in its top.
Who acts: fir tree, nest · What happens: say, be · To what, where: giant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fir tree, nest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 says | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 loch | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 loch | det |
| 16 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | nmod |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 there | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 loch | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 is | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 magpie | det |
| 24 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 magpie | case |
| 26 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 top | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 top | nmod:poss |
| 29 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nest | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the giant | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a fir tree beside that loch | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | a magpie's nest in nest's top | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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